Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1895, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 380, 1895-TWELVE PAGES, 9 ohuston's, 799 and 734 Vth StSeTE INcReases Fresh Meat Department. BIG GUT. 3 lbs. Round Steak - . ° - - = 25¢. 2 Ibs. Sirloin Steak = - =. - . = 25¢. Porterhouse Steak - - = - - 15c. Ib. Stew [leat - = s - - - - 5c. Ib. 3 lbs. Pork Chops = - = = - = 25¢. Spring Lamb, Veal, &c. Sugar-cured Shoulders - = = . 7c. Ib. Sugar-cured Hams - = = = ‘ lc. Ib. 1doz. Mackerel for - - - - = = 20¢. 3 I-2 Ibs. Lard for - - 2 = - = 25¢. Eggs, per dozen = - - - - - = 22¢. Good Roll Butter - - - - 2 25¢c. Ib. 5 lbs. Codfish for = - = e - = 25c. Burbank Potatoes - - - 65c. bu. Tea Dept. New Special Presents. Gold Band Bakers, Large Gold Band Pitchers, Gold Band Plates, Cups and Saucers given with every Pound of Tea, Three Pounds of Coffee, or One Pound of Spices. Java and Mocha Coffee - - = - goc. Ib. Best Mixed Tea - - - = - soc. Ib. Grocery Dept. Ginger Snaps - . = ‘= - 2 4c. Ib. Crackers = = = - - .s - 4c. Ib. 4 Cans Standard Tomatoes = - - = 25¢. 4 Cans Corn, Peas, Lima Beans - = = 25¢. Burbank Potatoes = = . . co 65c. bu. 6-lb. Pails Best Preserves - = - = 40¢. 3 packages Rolled Oats = = = - = 25¢. 7 Cakes Star Soap = * = - - = 25¢. 7 Cakes Borax Soap = 2 = = = = 25¢. Everything in the,Grocery Line at correspondingly low Make up your list and come to the JOHNSTON MARKET. JOHNSTON'S, 720-731 7th Street. (The Johnston Company.) prices. These Prices Show Plainly and Clearly Great Saving Of Money On Shoes of Known Value. Men’s Shoes. 82 pairs 2.50 Pat, Leather Oxfords, D width. 1.25 tala eae 2.05 Women’s Shoes. 17 pairs Pat. Tip Button. Reduced from 2.25. 1.50 ee 3.00. of toe. 208 pairs, in six styles. Reduced from 18 pairs 3.50 Calf Sr on 5 2.00 5.00. * 34 pairs of Pat. 88 pairs 5.00 and 6.00 Winter Russets. 16 pairs 4.50 Calf ° Double-sole Lace, All of our 9.00 Cork Soles, 8.00 Pat. Leathers, 7.00 Calf Shoes, ° Reduced to Boys’ 3.50 Tip Button. Reduced 3 0 35 from 5.00. €.00 Cork Soles. 5.00 Razor-toe Kid 8 ° Button. Accidents excepted, we will be in our Hand - mad Engit New Store, Ses Eee one bcm ever made for 1411 F St., ‘Sizes 12 to 2, 2.60. Next to branch post Sizes 2% to 5! 2 O office, Monday, February oe e Shoe BURT'S 2. Removal Sale. Arthur Burt, 1211 F St. The District Appropriation Bill as It is Completed. ~ SEWER AND STREET IMPROVEMENTS More Money for New School Buildings. SMALLPOX HOSPITAL The appropriations committee of the Senate yesterday afternoon held a meeting for the purpose of receiving the report of Senators Gorman, Proctor and Allison, the subcommittee on the District appropriation bill. The bill, as it finally passed the com- mittee, contained appropriations aggregat- ing $6,034,131.25, an increase over the House bill of $642,024. The total increase was $651,024, and there was a decrease of $9,000 in the appropriation for gas and electric lighting. The bill as reported to the Senate is a decrease of $1,183,502 from the estimates of the Commissioners. It Is an increase of $417,992.68 over the appro- priation for the current year. Increases in the Bill. The increases contained in the bill are noted in the following table: Executive offic Assessor's office. Collector's office. Coroner's office. Extension of highways Assessment and permi| Werk on streets and avenues. Relief sewers... Suburban sewers. Constructing county roads. Street sweeping.. Parking commission. Construction of new harbor boat. Care and repair of bridges. New Eastern branch bridge Janitors for school buildin; Rent of school buildings. New school buildings. Report upon public sc Metropolitan police force... Metropolitan police force, miscellane- ous expenses. Fire department. Telegraph and telephone service Health department.. Police Court witness fees. Compilation of District law: Emergency fund. Support of convicts. Emergency Hospital. Columbia Hospital Homeopathic Hosp Freedmen’s Hospital Young Women’s Christian Home. s Less reduction gas and electric lighting for streets.. 9,000 Net increase..........+++++ we eeee s S6E2,024 The increase of the executive force con- sists of an additional assistafit secretary at $1,000, two additional building inspec- tors, one assistant assessor at $1,400, a deputy collector of taxes at $2,000 and a deputy coroner at $1,400. The Commis- sicners are authorized to grant leaves of absence to not to exceed thirty employes, whose service is continuous, but who re- ceive per diem compensation. They may be given thirty days each per annum. A Smallpox Hospital. The sum of $30,000 1s appropriated for the erection and equipment of a hospital for the treatment of smallpox patients on reservation 13, behind the present jall, to be surrounded by a high masonry wall, and to include a disinfecting plant. This is not to be what has been generally called of late the hospital for contagious diseases, for which the Commissioners have al- ready purchased a site on Pleasant Plains. The penalty for unpaid taxes is reduced from 2 per cent to 1 per cent a month. ‘The sum of $25,000 is substituted for $6,000 for the completion of the plan for the ex- tension of streets and highways, with the proviso that of this sum $10,000 may be expended for the preparation of plans and report by Frederick Law Olmstead, “or other eminent landscape architect,” for such a sys- tem of extension. The authorities in charge of preparing the plan are author- ized to make such changes in existing sub- divisions made under the act of August 27, 1883, as may be advisable for the pur- pose of connecting the subdivision and for a better conformity to the general plan of the city. Street Improvements. ‘The appropriation for the improvement and repair of streets is raised from $100,- (ou to $100,000, and the increased sum is divided as follows: Georgetown, $12,800, an increase of $4,800; northwest, $60,800, increase, $22,800; southwest, $20,800, in- crease, $7,800; southeast, $30,400, increase, $11,400; northeast, $35,200, increase, $13,200. The appropriation for paving Ist street extended is increased to $18,000. Authority is given to omit Hancock Circle, hereto- fore required to be located at or near Mor- rig street. Five thousand dollars is given to grade and regulate Sherman avenue, inclucing widening opposite Garfield Hos- pital, with the proviso that the authorities of the hospital shall give the ground for this purpose on the side of the hospital. For grading and regulating Kenesaw ave- nue from 15th street to the Zoo, $12,000 is appropriated, and $9,000 is given for grad- ing and regulating Pennsylvania avenue extended and Branch avenue. The sum of $9,000, remaining from a former appropria- tion bill, is reappropriated for grading and graveling Albemarle street from Grant read to Connecticut avenue. The sum of $10,000 is given for the condemnation of property to enable the Commissioners to open 37th street between Back street and Tenleytown road. The Commissioners are directed in extending this street to curve it westerly to pass a house that is now in the way. Sewer Appropriations. For building relicf sewers and replacing old sewers the appropriation is increased from $40,000 to $65,000 and the amount for suburban sewers is reduced from $34,000 to $20,536. Contracts ere authorized as fol- lows: Eckington valley sewer, $17,000; Brookland sewer, $37,382; and Kenesaw avenue sewer, $10,000; in ail, $64,352: Pro- vided, That the Commissioners of the Dis- trict cf Columbia are authorized to enter into contract for the construction of said gewers at a cost not to exceed $4,000 for the Eckington valley sewer, $74,764 for the Brookland sewer ard $20,000 for the Kene- saw avenue sewer, to be paid for from time to time as appropriations may be made by law. The Commissioners are authorized to construct these sewers, where necessary, across lands belonging to the United States, which are to be restored to their original condition from the appropriations for sew- ers. In addition, $75,000 is given for con- structing in part the Rock creek and B street intercepting sewer, and it is provided that the Commissioners shall be authorized to enter into a contract for the entire work at_a cost not to exceed $230,000. The total appropriation for gas and electric lighting is reduced to $142,000. The compensation for gas lamps is increased from $20 to $20.50 per annum. The com- pensation for electric lights is increased from 38 cents to 40 cents, but each light is required to burn from sunset to sunrise, in- stead of 4,000 hours per annum. A rew iron or steel harbor boat {is pro- vided for and an appropriation of $25,000 grarted. The old boat is to be sold upon the completion of the new one and the money turned into the treasury. The Dam at Great Falls. An important amendment was inserted by the Senate committee in lieu of the House appropriation of $125,000 for raising the dam at Great Falls. The Senate pro- vides for the preparation cf a report by Gen. Casey and the officer in charge of the aqueduct upon the necessity for raising the dam, thecost entailed upon the canal by such increase of height, the capacity of the now-abandoned tunnel conduit, the pro- priety of completing the tunnel, the cost cf completing the new reservoir and the results as to the water supply when the dam, conduit ard reservoir may be com- Fleted. For the purpose of this investiga- SUM IT UP, 2 F mh 1 How We Do It. Facts. Having forty-four large stores throughout the United States and doing the largest exclusive tailoring business in the world we must necessarily use more woolens. We buy direct from the mills, thereby saving the profit of the middle man, or jobber. Our profits are 66 per cent less than others. We can therefore sell at a much lower price than others. But, think of this. We have cut our unusually low prices in half. . We give you now a Suit a half the regular price, or two for the price of one. A $21 Suit for $12. A $30 Suitfor $15. — A $45 Suit for $20. $5.25 and $4.25 Trousers for $3. $10.25, $9.25 and $8.25 Trousers for $5. All goods cut and made to order. . Perfect fit ruaranteed. PLYMOUTH Overcoats RO CK and PANTS Suits. GO: 2 = tion the sum of $35,000 is appropriated, with the understanding that each item of the repert shall be accompanied by detailed estimates. The work of completing the old receiving reservoir is to be continued under Col. George H. Ellict, notwithstand- ing his retirement from the active list of the army. For School Buildings. ‘The largest increase in the bill is in the appropriation for school buildings, amount- ing to $181,000, divided as follows: For rent for additioaal accommodations for schools district numbered five, $2,500; fer one new four-room building, sixth di- vision B, Glesboro, $10,000; for one new building and site for Business High School, $100,000; for one new two-room building and Site, sixth division A, Ivy City, $4,500; for ne four-room addition to present building, sixth division A, Tenleytown, $84,000; for cre four-room addition to present building, sixth division A, Brightwood, $14,000; for one four-room addjtion to present build- ing, sixth division A, Brookland, $14,00¢ for one new four-rocm building and sit sixth division A, Ccnduit road, to be I cated on the lot now occupied by a public school building and owned by the United States, $10,000; for one two-room addition to Garfield school (Hamilton road school), sixth division B, $1,500; for reconstructing Wallach school, $13,000. The board of trustees of the public schools is directed to make a special ex- amination of the system and course of study in the public schools of the District with the view of introducing such changes as may be necessary to enlarge the in- dustrial -feature of the schools. The sum of $1,000 is appropriated for the prepa- ration of a report of this investigation. ‘The police department is increased by an additional Heutenant at $1,500, to serve as an inspector, six privates of class one, and four privates of class two. The salary of the van driver and of the patrol wagon drivers is raised to $420, and of the two assistant ambulance drivers to $360. An additional patrol wagon driver was pro- Vided for. The Commissioners are direct- @d to supply deficiencies in the police or firemen’s relief fund by paying not to ex- ceed $6,500 out of the Police Court's fines; $4,000 of this to be for the police fund. ‘All of the House appropriations for the fire department are made immediately available, and a new truck house is pro- Yided for, to be located on New Jersey Avenue near M or N street. The committee increased the appropriation for extending the police patrol service and fire alarm telegraph into the suburbs from $5,000 to $10,000. ~ To Collect Garbage. The sum of $40,000 is given for the col- lection of garbage, and the appropriation stipulates the following schedule: Within the cities of Washington and Georgetown daily, and in thelr more densely populated suburbs two times a week, from April 15 to November 1; and two times a week and daily from hotels and othe like places, from November 1 to April 15. ‘The House appropriation of $4,000 for the prevention of the spread of scarlet fever and diphtheria is Stricken out and the Senate committee substitutes an appropri- ation of $20,000 to enforce the provisions of the act for this purpose, for the propa- gation of diphtheria anti-toxine and _ its distribution under the health officer, free to those unable to pay, and to others at cost price, and for the establishment and maintenance of a ‘bacteriological labora- tory and a disinfecting service. ‘The sum of 33,500 Is inserted for a survey for a bridge across the Eastern branch at the foot of South Capitol street. ‘The compensation of William Stone Abert for his compilation of the District laws is increased from $3,000 to $6,000, and the pill providing for the distribution of the statutes is incorporated in the appropria- tion bill. The Commissioners’ increased from $10,000 amount for the support $35,000 to $45,000. Charitable Appropriations. The charitable appropriations are gener- ally increased as follows: The Emergency Hospital is given $15,000 instead of $12,000 and the Columbia Hos- pital is allowed $2,000 additional for ordi- rary expenses, and $5,000 for heating appa- ratus and fitting up and furnishing new building. The Homeopathig Hospital 1s given $9,000 instead of $8,000, and Freed- men’s Hospital $17,000 instead of $15,000. The Young Woman's Christian Home gets $1,000. ‘The Industrial Home School Is transferred to the charge of the Commissioners, who emergency fund is to $15,000, and the t of convicts from are authorized to appoint a board of trus- tees of nine members to manage the school under such regulations as may now exist and may hereafter be made. All designa- ticns for employment in the school made by the trustees are subject to the approval of the Commissioners, who may make the appointments themselves in case they dis- approve. The wards of the board of chil- dren’s guardians committed to the school shall be supported without expense to the board. Other Changes. The item of $1,000 for the expenses of holding inquests is reduced to $800. The appropriation for repairing the market houses and erecting a garbage shed at the Eastern Market house is raised from $1,270 to $4,250. The allowance for assessment and permit work is raised from $150,000 to $175,000, and the item for widening the roadway of G street northwest, from 9th to 14th streets, is increased from $16,000 to $20,000. Provision is inserted for paving llth street, from East Capitol street to Massachusetts avenue, and $2,506 is given for this. The appropriaticn for sprinkling ond cleaning streets and alleys is increased from $139,000 to $150,000, with the proviso that not more than $1,000 of this sum shall be used on suburban streets. The allow- ance for the parking commission goes up from $15,000 to $23,000. For the repair of bridges the appropriation is raised from $10,000 to $11,500. The fund for fuel for the police department is raised from $1,900 to $2,200. Five thousand dollars is given for heating apparatus and furnishings for the new building at the Columbia Hospital. —_—____-e—__ MRS, BURNETI’S ABSENCE. She Has Gone to London to Spend a Year. < From the New York Mail and Express. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett seiled away from New York last week to spend the balance of the winter and the “season” in London. She will open her Portland place house there, and expects to entertain quite extensively. During her American sojourn of the past six months Mrs. Bur- nett has been busy with much literary work, the greater portion of which she left behind for publication within the ensuing six months. This work consists of a play which she has had in mind for a long time and will, in all probability, be produced in a New York theater early next autumn. She has also finished a novel, which takes the- period of “The Spectator and the Tat- tler’ as a background. In both of these works Mrs. Burnett goes back to the work for mature readers, with which she made her first, if not her subsequently wider fame. “People have gotten the idea,” said Mrs. Burnett to me just before she sailed, “that I have no longer anything to say to mature people. During the past few years I have naturally become better known as a juvenile writer, and this js partly be- cause I love to write of child life. But I also like to write of the ‘grown-ups,’ and for a while I shall put by my juvenile ten- dencies and write a few messages to ma- ture folks. I do not exactly wish that my reputation shall rest entirely upon my ju- venile writing.” Mrs. Burnett will not re- turn to America before next autumn. Dur- ing the summer her son Vivian, the original of “Fauntleroy,” will join his mother for a season of English rural life at an English country hot —_—_—_—_-+e-______ Declared Insane. George F. O’Hair, a clerk in the record and pension division of the War Depart- ment, thirty-five years old, hailing from Indianapolis, appeared at the Emergency Hospital Monday evening and asked to be protected from assassination by his fel- low clerks, It was evident to the physi- clans that the man was insane. After having been removed to a cot in one of the wards, and examined, the physicians pro- nounced the case one of acute insanity, induced by overwork and other causes. At a late hour today he was resting well, and seemed to be somewhat improved. O’Hair was a survivor of the Ford’s Thea- ter disaster, and it is said by his friends that the matter preyed on his mind till he became insane. He boarded at the Hillman House, and the people there report that for some time past he has acted strangely. ee Ginger snaps, 4c. Ib. Johnston’s, page 9.— Advertisement, 943 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest. LONG LITIGATION ENDED. The Maritoba School Case Decided by Privy Councillors. In the presence of Baron Watson, lord of appeal-in-ordinary, Lord MacNaghten, lerd of appeal-in-ordinary, and Lord Shand, a member of the judicial committee of the privy council, the lord chancellor, Baron Herschel, yesterday in London delivered judgment allowing Catholics’ appeal from the decision of the supreme court of Can- ada, in the case of Brophy and others agt. the attorney general of Manitoba, rendered on February 20, 18%4, and known as the “Manitoba school case.” No costs were allowed. What is known as the Manitoba school case has been a long, tedious and expensive litigation. It has kept alive much racial and religious animosity. Its settlement was much to be desired. The essential facts of the controversy are these: In 1870 Manitoba was admitted to the Canadian confederation. Its first legisla- ture passed a school law providing for Protestant and Catholic schools, to be sup- ported by these respective religionists. But, in 1890, the Greenway government passed an act appropriating all school taxes to the support of a common school system. Wheh, under this law, the city of Winnipeg sought to collect school taxes from Roman Catholics, they resisted pay- ment, and began an action to contest the constitutionality of the act, contending that under the Manitoba act conferring provincial jurisdiction the legislature had no right to take away the rights of sep- arate denominational schools held by the Catholics prior to federation. ‘THE PULLMAN CAR CO. Argument in the Quo Warranto Case at Chicago. Attorney General Moloney’s quo War- ranto proceedings directed against the Pull- man Palace Car Company occupied the at- tention of Judge Baker in Chicago yester- day. The lengthy information filed by the attorney general was first read. = To this information the defendant com- pany had, through its attorneys, filed in answer, five separate pleadings, cacif in turn demurred to by the attorney general as bad and insufficient answers. ‘At the conclusion of the reading of the information, counsel for the company in- troduced a’ sixth plea, which was a re- statement of the substance of the other pleas, dealt with somewhat more argu- mentatively and accurately. This new plea was promptly demurred to, The an- swer denied but few of the allegations, but set out to justify the actions of the com- pany. The main argument of the defendant's plea was that since 1880 all the acts of the defendant company had been well known to the people; that in 1891 a commit- tee of the legislature had been appointed to ascertain the holdings of the company to see if the corporation had been properly taxed, and that this committee's report had been accepted; that in these fourteen years the acts of the company had been either acquiesced in or waived, and it was unfair and unjust to come forth at this late date with a quo warranto proceeding. The entire afternoon was consumed by the attorney general in his argument in support of his demurrer. He will continue the argument today. —_—___+02+____. EX-CASHIER HUGHES ARRESTED. Charged With Taking Lima National Bank Funds. A deputy United States marshal arrested and brought to Toledo yesterday Charles M. Hughes, jr., ex-cashier of the First Na- tional Bank of Lima, on the charge of mis- appropriation of $140,000 of the bank's funds. Hughes was released on bond for his appearance Friday before the United States commissioner. This is the bank in which Senator Brice is largely interested. The suit is brought by a stockhelder, Walter Zinn, of Colum- bus. The bank loaned large sums to the Munroe Manufacturing Company of Lima, which failed. An assessment of 100 per cent had to be made on the bank stock- holders, and Hughes was replaced by an- other cashier. Zinn refused to pay up, and caused Hughes’ arrest. Mr. Brice’s friends stand by Hughes, and say that the loans to the Munroe company were merely an error of judgment on his part, and that he did not profit in any way thereby. HARRY HAYWARD’S TRIAL. ° Blixt May Be Brought Forward as the Principal Witness. When Michael Eckes, the first juror in the Hayward murder trial at Minneapolis yesterday, was placed on the stand in the Hayward case there was a very marked. change in the manner of questioning by the defense. Mr. Eckes was very severely examined, but his answers to every ques- tion were such as to preclude the possi- bility of any but a peremptory challenge. The defense had none to offer, the juror was satisfactory to Mr. Nye, and he was sworn in. It is becoming evident that the relations between the defense in the Blixt case and the prosecution in the Hayward case are close. The attorney for Blixt was in close conference with the state’s attorney before ccurt opened. g These conferences and other circum- stances have led to the positive assertion in some quarters that Blixt is to be brought into court immediately after the opening of the case; that he will then change his plea to guilty, and be put on the stand at once as the principal witness against Hayward. soe --_ WOMAN SUFFRAGE CONVENTION. Tepics to Be Discussed at the Five Days’ Conference at Atlanta. The National American Woman Suffrage Convention will be held this year at At- lanta, Ga. Meetings will be held for five days, from tomorrow to February 4 inclusive. The first morning and afternoon will be devoted to the formal opening, committee reports, and short addresses. At the evening ses- sion the president’s address will be deliv- ered by Susan B. Anthony, and addresses will follow by Dora Phelps Buell of Colo- rado, on “A Message from the Rocky Mourtain: and Elizabeth N. Yates ‘of Maine, on “The Signs of the Times.” Friday evening the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw will speak on “The Home, the T: Root of the State;” Gen. Robert Hemphi on “Weman in South Carolina;” Alice Stone Blackwell, on “Strongholds of Op- position;” Caroline E. Merrick, on “Wo- man as a Subject;” Elizabeth Lysle Saxon, on “Club Life Among Southern Women,” and Lillie Devereux Blake, on “Wife, Mother and Citizen.” Saturday evening Josephine K. Henry speak on “Women Suffrage in the Sout! Mary C. Francis on “The Next Phase of the Woman Question.” The Fair Estate Troubles. From the New York Evening Post. A recent dispatch from San Francisco makes the following statements concerning the troubles about the Fair estate: The dilemma of the late millipnaire Fatr’s children is probably unique in law. The son is ready to contest his father’s will on the ground of undue influence and mental incapacity at the time it was drawn, and the daughters, while taking no part in this contest, will privately guarantee their brother against loss should his attempt fail. But at outset they are met by the refusal of the executors to produce the other wills known to be among Fair's pa- pers. The old millionaire had a mania for making wills, and if he had lived a few days longer he would have added another testament to his collection. The position of the contestant is this: Should he prove that the will which the executors desire to probate is void, they may spring another document from their collection which it may be impossible to overthrow. The problem is a knotty one, but the stren ous objection of the children to compara- tive strangers handling their father’s for- tune as a trust will probably lead them ‘to risk everything to break his will. By the terms of the will they are at the mercy of men whom Fair never trusted with his se- crets, and their trust has more hateful features than the English entail. The Electropoise Cures - withont medicine. It is the most wonderful agent for alleviating pain. Mra. L.A. Brown, 1118 10th st. nw., writes:— “The Electropoise entirely relieved me of severe pain in back and limbs, from which I had Jong been a sufferer.”” Thousands indorse its merits. Sold or §a30-144 rented. (Agents wanted.) JOHN N. WEBB, 728 11TH ST. N.W.